Exploratory thoracoscopy in small animal veterinary medicine is, compared with an open
exploratory thoracotomy, a minimally invasive diagnostic procedure with several benefits …

Standard video-assisted thoracoscopic lung biopsy should be considered in patients with
interstitial lung diseases of unknown cause who have a subacute course, ground-glass …

Objective To evaluate the use of a bipolar vessel‐sealing device for peripheral lung lobe
biopsy in healthy dogs. Study Design Experimental study. Animals Mature female hound …

Lobectomies using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) are becoming more and
more accepted since several recent studies have demonstrated their safety and efficacy for …

This third edition Atlas of Endoscopic Major Pulmonary Resections describes in detail the
totally thoracoscopic approach to major pulmonary resections, in which only endoscopic …

Background: The undiscerning canon characteristic of minimally invasive thoracic surgery
(MITS) is challenged from an unorthodox subjective viewpoint of an academic thoracic …

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to retrospectively examine the postoperative
pulmonary fistula as a complication after the use of either electrocautery or a harmonic …

We report our experience with a policy of early chest tube removal after video-assisted
thoracic surgical lung biopsy (VATS-LB) in 146 patients. The chest tube (24F) was removed …

In 1920, Dr William T. Bovie, a physicist at Harvard in collaboration with the neurosurgeon
Dr Harvey W. Cushing, created the first electrosurgical unit. 1 Since the creation of this first …

Background: The safety and efficacy of the ligasure vessel sealing system (LVSS) and
harmonic scalpel (HS) in sutureless nonanatomical lung resections were evaluated …